Levnesovia

Levnesovia Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Class	Sauropsida
Superorder	Dinosauria
Order	Ornithischia
Suborder	Ornithopoda
Infraorder	Iguanodontia
Superfamily	Hadrosauroidea
Genus	Levnesovia Sues and Averianov, 2009
Species	L. transoxiana Sues and Averianov, 2009 (type)

Levnesovia is a genus of extinct hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. It was related to Bactrosaurus. The type species is L. transoxiana. The genus name honours the late Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov. The specific name refers to the ancient region Transoxiana.^[1] It lived in the Bissekty Formation.

References[]

^ Hans-Dieter Sues and Alexander Averianov. 2009. A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Abstract

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